Opinion by Simone Galimberti (kathmandu, nepal) Tuesday, September 13, 2022 Inter Press Service KATHMANDU, Nepal, Sep 13 (IPS) – If we truly want to re-imagine the role education can play in the decades to come, it is going to be indispensable to take drastic measures to elevate the role of teachers…
Opinion by Lily Meyersohn (new york) Friday, September 09, 2022 Inter Press Service NEW YORK, Sep 09 (IPS) – This week––nearly ten months after the emergence of the Omicron variant––the United States is rolling out Covid-19 booster vaccines that specifically target newer, now-dominant strains of the virus. The Centers for Disease…
A medical officer preparing to give a COVID-19 vaccine in Somalia in May 2021. Credit: Mokhtar Mohamed/AMISOM by Juliet Morrison (united nations) Thursday, September 08, 2022 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Sep 08 (IPS) – With the outbreak of Monkeypox in non-endemic countries leading to a scramble for vaccines, global health…
Opinion by Robert Sandford (hamilton, canada) Tuesday, September 06, 2022 Inter Press Service HAMILTON, Canada, Sep 06 (IPS) – Monsoon flooding has occurred often in Pakistan but never to the catastrophic extent presently happening. A distinguishing feature of this disaster is that no one blames the flooding’s unprecedented intensity and destructiveness…
Yasmine Sherif, Director of Education Cannot Wait and Jan Egeland, Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council meet students at the Souza Gare school in the Littoral region, Cameroon. The school hosts displaced children who have fled the violence in the North-West and South-West regions. Credit: ECW/Daniel Beloumou by Joyce…
Escaping the flood waters is a family with their livestock. The family was caught in devastating flows in the Taluka Jhudo, District Mirpurkhas. Credit: Research and Development Foundation (RDF) by Zofeen Ebrahim (karachi) Tuesday, August 30, 2022 Inter Press Service KARACHI, Aug 30 (IPS) – The heavy and incessant monsoon downpours…
Dr Mohsina Chaklader, a doctor with Humanity Auxilium, pictured here in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, says she has Rohingyas refugees for physical and psychological wounds after they were forced to flee unspeakable brutality in Myanmar. Credit: Humanity Auxilium by Sania Farooqui (new delhi) Thursday, August 25, 2022 Inter Press Service New Delhi,…
Hanadi teaches Syrian children computer skills at a UNICEF Jordan supported Makani centre in Za’atari refugee camp. Credit: UNICEF/Toby Fricker Opinion by Toby Fricker (za’atari refugee camp, jordan) Thursday, August 25, 2022 Inter Press Service ZA’ATARI REFUGEE CAMP, Jordan, Aug 25 (IPS) – “I think I’m making a difference. I’m really…
An International Labour Organisation report found that the COVID-19 pandemic impacted youth employment more than any other group. Credit: Dominic Chavez/World Bank by Juliet Morrison (united nations) Wednesday, August 24, 2022 Inter Press Service United Nations, Aug 24 (IPS) – When COVID-19 prompted economic shutdowns across the globe, many analysts predicted…
Rohingya refugee girl Rohima Akter, 13, is excited about learning to write in the Burmese language in the UNICEF learning centre in Cox’s Bazar. The new curriculum provides Rohingya refugee children with formal and standardized education. Credit: UNICEF Bangladesh by Joyce Chimbi (united nations) Tuesday, August 23, 2022 Inter Press Service…
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